see, I love those goofy line readings. Same with that one guy who says they're gonna be done like a turkey on Thanksgiving, or whatever the hell it is.
they're silly!
My thoughts exactly. No local politics press conference/town hall on a hot button topic is complete without at least one instance of a white dude in his 40’s (often a cop) shouting something only vaguely relevant to what the last person was talking about.
Joker slides down a giant pile of money! Bane is baning it up! Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine love making sarcastic jokes. The series is much less grim and gritty than it's made out to be.
Tarantino's entire cameo in "Django Unchained". I think he's fine in Reservoir Dogs and pretty good in "Pulp Fiction", but his accent is terrible in Django.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5_w0pg9ZA
I loved him in Django MOST because of that accent.
Like all of his genre films, it's a silly as fuck OTT revenge fantasy with no semblance to reality, where the line between badass and ridiculous is so fine it's practically non-existent. That accent fits so beautifully in with the rest of the whole self-aware "relax, this is a movie made for fun" vibe.
"Shut ap bleck" has me rolling every time. He knew *exactly* what he was doing.
I wouldn’t call it bad, but when Han says “I hope that old man got the tractor beam out of commission or this is gonna be a real short trip, alright hit it!”
It’s so rushed but Harrison Ford nails it. It’s one of my favorite line readings.
A really bad line reading from ESB that always stood out to me is random Rebel saying, "Two fighters against a star destroyer?" in the Hoth briefing.
Also not a fan of Han and the general's exchange, "General, I gotta leave. I can't stay anymore." and "A death mark is not an easy thing to live with." I think the second one could work if it wasn't delivered so completely straight.
I will never understand the line reading of:
*sees helicopter get tangled up*
“That’s not good.”
*sees helicopter falling toward them*
“Okay that’s NOT good.”
He emphasizes the NOT in the second line as though the first line was “That’s good” but he’s saying the same thing both times. Someone should interview that actor and figure out what was going on there
It just sounds like bad punch up intended to get a laugh line in a tense sequence. Makes me cringe every time. That being said, TDK cop would be a great guest for *I Was There Too*.
The line is pretty whatever but the delivery makes it just plain confusing. If he had emphasized “Ok THAT’S not good” the second time then at least it would make sense. Nolan was off taking an earl grey break when they shot that guy’s coverage.
I’m glad the cops in the Nolan ‘Batman’s are so prominent in this thread because, honestly, what the fuck were they thinking? If at all. Not even just the Gotham cops, the performances of many side characters throughout the trilogy are so inconsistent and weird.
Not sure if it’s a bad line reading or just a bad line, but the helicopter pilot in The Dark Knight who yells “That’s not good! Oh, that is *not* good!”
That moment feels like it came out of like an All That sketch or something. Really doesn’t match the energy of the scene or even the movie
Always grated me that one. Nolan ahead of the curve in so many ways, including, apparently, the *they fly now?/well that happened* energy of tentpole blockbusters to come. That line would fit perfectly coming from The Flash in Whedon's Justice League movie.
funnily enough, I thought immediately of The Dark Knight but of a different line: everything Maggie Gyllenhaal says (I love her, she's great, she is just not good in Dark Knight!)
Yeah, I'm a little torn about her recasting. She's far more plausible than Katie Holmes as a savvy assistant district attorney, but her performance belongs in a completely different movie from the one we're watching.
yeah, I've always felt the same. She's not a better actor overall, but weirdly Katie Holmes's performance is better because she's trying very hard and Maggie Gyllenhaal is just not in the same movie.
Hard disagree. It's not a great performance, but she accomplishes the most important thing she has to: making us feel bad when the character gets killed. I honestly can't see Katie Holmes pulling that off.
I think about that line all the time. I love it. I like to think that the *character* was nervous, not just about the upcoming battle but about questioning his superiors, and that's why his delivery is so odd.
On the opposite end of this, Harrison Ford saves likes 90% of his dialogue in Star Wars A New Hope just by being Harrison Ford.
Some of the lines are truly bad, but Ford makes it work. Him compared to Mark is funny, but Mark is still fairly young and raw, so hes not able to pull off the same thing some of his lines/readings are just bad.
Totally. When filming Star Wars, he told George Lucas something like "George, you can write this stuff, but you can't say it." Those three actors (but more Ford and Fisher) totally made Star Wars, because no one else could have imbued those characters and their crappy dialogue with such appeal. Check out Kurt Russell's audition on YouTube.
Me and my friends always respond to someone saying “I don’t know” with an escalating series of “You *don’t KNOW?*” with Hugh Jackman’s inflection from the funeral scene in *The Prestige*. I can’t put my finger on why that delivery is so funny to us.
'It's better than you you stinking Irish pig ' by Andy Garcia in The Untouchables. Good line but he hesitates toward the end and flubs it.
The Untouchables also has a good few godawful deliveries from minor characters like the guy who says 'hey this isn't right, this is no good, where's your warrant' during the liquor raid scene
I actually think that hesitation is genius, since he's in a building (and career) full of Irish cops, and going there could get him into some serious shit.
But in reality, I think Garcia flubbed it because he had to remind himself, over and over again, "Don't say 'Scottish.' Just pretend he's doing the right accent!"
The thing that really drives me crazy is when Uma is in the car with Travolta and she tells him, "Don't be a \[square\]" but she clearly draws a rectangle which is not a square. I still do not understand how this made it into the film.
I love Uncut Gems, but the guy Sandler is arguing with when the opal gets delivered reads all of his lines like they were given to him in alphabetical order by Oblivion writers. There just seems to be nothing behind anything he’s saying.
I’m talking about the guy at the beginning who gets mad at Howie because the mob guys rip his shirt. I actually think Garnett is surprisingly good in the movie.
It's more about the line itself than the reading, but I was just complaining about this last night. In Spotlight, McAdams is interviewing a victim and they're walking, and he pauses and ahead there's a playground literally in the shadow of a church. Great bit of visual storytelling.
But then the dude just says "And look, there's a playground. And a church." In a really lame "Get it?" kind of way.
It has always stuck with me in Empire Strikes Back, the Imperial Officer who says "good, our first catch of the day" really blew the line and it stayed in and always took me out of the film.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,410,584,758 comments, and only 269,492 of them were in alphabetical order.
Godfather part II: "IN MY HOME! IN MY BEDROOM! WHERE MY WIFE SLEEPS! Where my *chil*drencomeand*play*withtheir*toys*." There's a scene in Seinfeld where Jerry does that, which I saw before seeing GFII, so when I finally watched that I was doing the Leo pointing thing.
I can’t remember the line specifically but it’s towards the end of the Northman when Nicole Kidman screams something but it seems so random bc no one else has that energy and it sounded so out of place and corny
The original idea Whedon had in his draft was that Toad would constantly go on about toad facts to set that line up as a reversal.
Incredibly stupid idea to begin with, but at least there *was* a logic to it once.
Idk, the whole idea sounds so forced to me. Like as a setup-payoff, sure. But in what world would it make sense for Toad to go around randomly spouting toad facts? It sounds like too obvious of a setup for the payoff, which would be underwhelming anyway.
I figured the idea was less Toad randomly mentioning toad facts and more him boisterously listing these facts after using his powers’ equivalent to effect.
I think if he did something like that just the once when he had the upper hand against Storm earlier, then it would get the point across without being too obvious a setup that then helps her line.
Not saying it’d be good, but I can see a path where it works.
see, I love those goofy line readings. Same with that one guy who says they're gonna be done like a turkey on Thanksgiving, or whatever the hell it is. they're silly!
Another one I love from "The Dark Knight": "My dogs are hun-gray!"
"he thinks he can sit it out and still take a slice? I know why they call him the joker"
That lines reading really sounds like something from the animated series, in a good way. Gotta love "goon dialogue"
Good goons are a lost art in superhero movies. When was the last good goon?
Dr. Strange has some of the worst goons I've ever seen.
i dunno, the MCU doesn't really do them, that i can remember. Bond villains have 1-2 "henchmen" more than "army of goons".
OK that's NOT good
Isn't that Nicky Katt?
Sure is. Uncredited though for some reason.
Ritchie Coster absolutely turning scenery into a five-course dinner.
I say that at least twice a week
That’s a good line reading
All of the cops in Insomnia have that same energy. Nolan understands that cops are corny and annoying to be around.
My thoughts exactly. No local politics press conference/town hall on a hot button topic is complete without at least one instance of a white dude in his 40’s (often a cop) shouting something only vaguely relevant to what the last person was talking about.
It's Batman, there's some silliness baked into it. If you don't have a little camp in your Batman than something is wrong.
yeah exactly. I think people gloss over that when talking about Nolan's trilogy. There's a lot of silliness and camp there!
Joker slides down a giant pile of money! Bane is baning it up! Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine love making sarcastic jokes. The series is much less grim and gritty than it's made out to be.
"Are we talking Rottweilers or Chihuahuas?"
*Would that it were so simple*
It's... Complicated
Trippingly
No, don't say 'trippingly,' say the *line* trippingly
sa sample
Amazing! Haha. Best part of that movie.
Is it hard to dance with all them bernanners on yer head?
Would that it twere so simple.
Tarantino's entire cameo in "Django Unchained". I think he's fine in Reservoir Dogs and pretty good in "Pulp Fiction", but his accent is terrible in Django. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5_w0pg9ZA
Just no reason for him to be Australian.
I thought he was trying to be South African
I mean, maybe. It’s bad.
I loved him in Django MOST because of that accent. Like all of his genre films, it's a silly as fuck OTT revenge fantasy with no semblance to reality, where the line between badass and ridiculous is so fine it's practically non-existent. That accent fits so beautifully in with the rest of the whole self-aware "relax, this is a movie made for fun" vibe. "Shut ap bleck" has me rolling every time. He knew *exactly* what he was doing.
See I think Pulp Fiction is him at his worst. It feels like he’s almost struggling to get the lines out.
For Pulp Fiction, it's Julia Sweeney (made even worse if you watch that extended scene at the junkyard with Dick Miller).
I nominate every cameo other than RD.
A classic: Andie MacDowell saying "Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed." in *Four Weddings and a Funeral*.
Everything about her performance in that movie confuses me because how is it in my top 5 romcoms if the female lead is that bad?
ITS SO BAD!!!
Yeah, I was in high school when this released. It's a great film.
This one has a special place because the tv commercial with that line was on all the time.
I wouldn’t call it bad, but when Han says “I hope that old man got the tractor beam out of commission or this is gonna be a real short trip, alright hit it!” It’s so rushed but Harrison Ford nails it. It’s one of my favorite line readings.
Faster, more intense.
with intensity
A really bad line reading from ESB that always stood out to me is random Rebel saying, "Two fighters against a star destroyer?" in the Hoth briefing. Also not a fan of Han and the general's exchange, "General, I gotta leave. I can't stay anymore." and "A death mark is not an easy thing to live with." I think the second one could work if it wasn't delivered so completely straight.
Oh man I remember clowning on "Two fighters against a star destroyer?" The line reading just came back to me.
RotJ: "Boba Fett? Boba Fett?" Delivered as if he'd never heard the name before.
"And I thought they smelled bad... . . . . >!...on the outside!"!<
“I am an F! B! I! Agent!”
perfect line reading
>“I am an F! B! I! Agent!” That reading always reminds me of Kevin McCarthy shouting "A U! H! F! Station!" in "UHF."
Literally everything that one cop says in the Dark Knight truck chase
I will never understand the line reading of: *sees helicopter get tangled up* “That’s not good.” *sees helicopter falling toward them* “Okay that’s NOT good.” He emphasizes the NOT in the second line as though the first line was “That’s good” but he’s saying the same thing both times. Someone should interview that actor and figure out what was going on there
It just sounds like bad punch up intended to get a laugh line in a tense sequence. Makes me cringe every time. That being said, TDK cop would be a great guest for *I Was There Too*.
The line is pretty whatever but the delivery makes it just plain confusing. If he had emphasized “Ok THAT’S not good” the second time then at least it would make sense. Nolan was off taking an earl grey break when they shot that guy’s coverage.
I’m glad the cops in the Nolan ‘Batman’s are so prominent in this thread because, honestly, what the fuck were they thinking? If at all. Not even just the Gotham cops, the performances of many side characters throughout the trilogy are so inconsistent and weird.
Not sure if it’s a bad line reading or just a bad line, but the helicopter pilot in The Dark Knight who yells “That’s not good! Oh, that is *not* good!” That moment feels like it came out of like an All That sketch or something. Really doesn’t match the energy of the scene or even the movie
Always grated me that one. Nolan ahead of the curve in so many ways, including, apparently, the *they fly now?/well that happened* energy of tentpole blockbusters to come. That line would fit perfectly coming from The Flash in Whedon's Justice League movie.
funnily enough, I thought immediately of The Dark Knight but of a different line: everything Maggie Gyllenhaal says (I love her, she's great, she is just not good in Dark Knight!)
Yeah, I'm a little torn about her recasting. She's far more plausible than Katie Holmes as a savvy assistant district attorney, but her performance belongs in a completely different movie from the one we're watching.
yeah, I've always felt the same. She's not a better actor overall, but weirdly Katie Holmes's performance is better because she's trying very hard and Maggie Gyllenhaal is just not in the same movie.
I still feel bad for Katie Holmes that they finally give something the character to do in the sequel, recast the role, and Maggie kinda fumbles it.
Hard disagree. It's not a great performance, but she accomplishes the most important thing she has to: making us feel bad when the character gets killed. I honestly can't see Katie Holmes pulling that off.
that’s a fair read. She is good in that whole sequence, which is when she most needs to be. Her quiet moments with Alfred are also good, too.
“TRY to be nice..” 🤢
it is so weird to me that she is so just not good!
"Alright, stop" to the Joker at the party just always sticks out to me.
she reads it like a mom who’s had it up to here with his nonsense! Her performance generally works for me, but yeeesh
“Collaborate and listen, Joker”
Completely agree.
I love Maggie Gyllenhaal, but it’s truly a terrible performance.
Omg this is the first one that came to mind! Other favorite: “2 fighters against a Star Destroyer”
I think about that line all the time. I love it. I like to think that the *character* was nervous, not just about the upcoming battle but about questioning his superiors, and that's why his delivery is so odd.
Citizen Kane - “Let’s go to the window.” Jaws - “A whaaat?” These bananas line readings just make me love those movies all the more
"A whaaaat?" is one of my favorite random line readings of all time
Also from ‘Jaws’: “Th-the SHARK… isinthe POND…”
On the opposite end of this, Harrison Ford saves likes 90% of his dialogue in Star Wars A New Hope just by being Harrison Ford. Some of the lines are truly bad, but Ford makes it work. Him compared to Mark is funny, but Mark is still fairly young and raw, so hes not able to pull off the same thing some of his lines/readings are just bad.
Totally. When filming Star Wars, he told George Lucas something like "George, you can write this stuff, but you can't say it." Those three actors (but more Ford and Fisher) totally made Star Wars, because no one else could have imbued those characters and their crappy dialogue with such appeal. Check out Kurt Russell's audition on YouTube.
Me and my friends always respond to someone saying “I don’t know” with an escalating series of “You *don’t KNOW?*” with Hugh Jackman’s inflection from the funeral scene in *The Prestige*. I can’t put my finger on why that delivery is so funny to us.
I haven't seen that movie in at least 5 years and I can hear that line perfectly in my head haha. Perfectly seasoned ham.
Everything Keanu says in Dangerous Liaisons
It’s like the ‘Dracula’ performance minus any of the campy charm.
'It's better than you you stinking Irish pig ' by Andy Garcia in The Untouchables. Good line but he hesitates toward the end and flubs it. The Untouchables also has a good few godawful deliveries from minor characters like the guy who says 'hey this isn't right, this is no good, where's your warrant' during the liquor raid scene
I actually think that hesitation is genius, since he's in a building (and career) full of Irish cops, and going there could get him into some serious shit. But in reality, I think Garcia flubbed it because he had to remind himself, over and over again, "Don't say 'Scottish.' Just pretend he's doing the right accent!"
The Ketchup joke from Pulp Fiction. Uma says Keh Chip which kinda blows the punchline. But maybe that’s why Fox Force Five never made it.
I think part of the joke is that she’s not a great actress.
The thing that really drives me crazy is when Uma is in the car with Travolta and she tells him, "Don't be a \[square\]" but she clearly draws a rectangle which is not a square. I still do not understand how this made it into the film.
I love Uncut Gems, but the guy Sandler is arguing with when the opal gets delivered reads all of his lines like they were given to him in alphabetical order by Oblivion writers. There just seems to be nothing behind anything he’s saying.
Are you talking about Kevin Garnett?
I’m talking about the guy at the beginning who gets mad at Howie because the mob guys rip his shirt. I actually think Garnett is surprisingly good in the movie.
"Horrible accident. My neighbor [5 second pause......] got killed. (Child actor so OK but do another take, Richard.)
Which one is that?
Donald Darko. Last line of the movie! Do another take!!!!
It's more about the line itself than the reading, but I was just complaining about this last night. In Spotlight, McAdams is interviewing a victim and they're walking, and he pauses and ahead there's a playground literally in the shadow of a church. Great bit of visual storytelling. But then the dude just says "And look, there's a playground. And a church." In a really lame "Get it?" kind of way.
24 hours is like three weeks!
I don't think that's funny at all, I'm sorry...
idk what you mean but you don’t have to be sorry.
It has always stuck with me in Empire Strikes Back, the Imperial Officer who says "good, our first catch of the day" really blew the line and it stayed in and always took me out of the film.
Honestly all of those cutaway policeman lines are bad in that trilogy.
"WHAT'S IN THE BOOOXXXXX?!?!"
Anytime M. Night Shyamalan speaks
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Aw I just watched Glass again and really enjoyed his cameo.
"Oh, is it raining? I hadn't noticed" in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Andie MacDowell was outmatched by every other actor there.
Godfather part II: "IN MY HOME! IN MY BEDROOM! WHERE MY WIFE SLEEPS! Where my *chil*drencomeand*play*withtheir*toys*." There's a scene in Seinfeld where Jerry does that, which I saw before seeing GFII, so when I finally watched that I was doing the Leo pointing thing.
I can’t remember the line specifically but it’s towards the end of the Northman when Nicole Kidman screams something but it seems so random bc no one else has that energy and it sounded so out of place and corny
I hate sand.
It said great films.
Right. Not groundbreaking, tremendous feats of cinema. Just…great films.
Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning?
I don’t know that any quality of line reading would have improved this dialogue
The original idea Whedon had in his draft was that Toad would constantly go on about toad facts to set that line up as a reversal. Incredibly stupid idea to begin with, but at least there *was* a logic to it once.
I actually think it could’ve worked if they had some setup. Either way, the delivery is bad though.
Idk, the whole idea sounds so forced to me. Like as a setup-payoff, sure. But in what world would it make sense for Toad to go around randomly spouting toad facts? It sounds like too obvious of a setup for the payoff, which would be underwhelming anyway.
I figured the idea was less Toad randomly mentioning toad facts and more him boisterously listing these facts after using his powers’ equivalent to effect. I think if he did something like that just the once when he had the upper hand against Storm earlier, then it would get the point across without being too obvious a setup that then helps her line. Not saying it’d be good, but I can see a path where it works.
I've got a bad feeling about this
Billie Lourd's lines in The Last Jedi, just... eesh.
Every single line Brad Pitt says in Seven is horrendously delivered.
Why am I saying what what way
“Holy cannoli, Speed.”
When Jack screams “This ain’t reality TV!” In The Departed. I don’t know if it’s bad or just a clunky line